Is the best time to be doing comedy and to be making comedy in current social environment. Are some jokes off limits . Well, the funny thing is, i dont think any joke is off limits. The fact that its a joke, it has to work. You know, there are so many people who you know, will try a joke, you know, because its like, you know, quote unquote, edgy and nobody laughs and theres a tendency to say, like, oh, guys, must be snowflakes, as opposed i know you just didnt craft a good joke. So i think any joke or any topic is is up for grabs. But, you know, obviously, the more serious the subject matter, the more it has to be treated, or at least i think that it, you know, just natural. You have to have to leave a better, better web. That be that does that does that work for you . Give us an example of a better web of of a give you potentially a sensitive or topic a top. Yeah, i think well, i think like cancer is probably a pretty serious thing. Um, and, you know, a few years back, like my mother
In current social environment. Are some jokes off limits . Well, the funny thing is, i dont think any joke is off limits. The fact that its a joke, it has to work. You know, there are so many people who you know, will try a joke, you know, because its like, you know, quote unquote, edgy and nobody laughs and theres a tendency to say, like, oh, guys, must be snowflakes, as opposed i know you just didnt craft a good joke. So i think any joke or any topic is is up for grabs. But, you know, obviously, the more serious the subject matter, the more it has to be treated, or at least i think that it, you know, just natural. You have to have to leave a better, better web. That be that does that does that work for you . Give us an example of a better web of of a give you potentially a sensitive or topic a top. Yeah, i think well, i think like cancer is probably a pretty serious thing. Um, and, you know, a few years back, like my mother was diagnosed with cancer and the first thought that i was l
Live caption button at the bottom of your screen, let me introduce our guests for this afternoon. Randall kennedy is the Michael Klein professor at harvard law school, where he teaches courses on contracts, criminal law and the regulation of race relations. He is a member of the bar of the district of columbia, the Law Institute and the American Academy of arts and sciences. He is the author of seven books. Kennedy will be in congress a conversation with layman. The author of the genre bending novel Long Division in the essay collection how to slowly kill yourself and others in america. Lehmanns bestselling memoir, heavy an american memoir, one multiple awards, including the 2019 Andrew Carnegie mellon medal for excellence in nonfiction. Lehmann is a recipient of the 2023 2021 radcliffe fellowship in harvard. He is the founder of the catharine coleman literary arts and justice initiative, a program aimed at getting mississippi kids and their parents more comfortable reading, writing, r
Word, straight from panettis website, you can ask our speakers a question this afternoon by clicking on the q a box at the bottom of your screen, and we will try to get to as many of those questions as we can towards the end the program. But we apologize in advance if we dont have the time to address your question. Also, there are auto captions for this event by hitting the live caption button at the bottom of your screen, let me introduce our guests for this afternoon. Randall kennedy is the Michael Klein professor at harvard law school, where he teaches courses on contracts, criminal law and the regulation of race relations. He is a member of the bar of the district of columbia, the Law Institute and the American Academy of arts and sciences. He is the author of seven books. Kennedy will be in congress a conversation with layman. The author of the genre bending novel Long Division in the essay collection how to slowly kill yourself and others in america. Lehmanns bestselling memoir,